Gaming will be fantastic, it is the flagship AMD desktop CPU after all! Benchmarks put the 7950X3D about 5% behind the 7800X3D (at 1080P, that'll quickly disappear at higher resolutions). Plus if you can make use of the additional cores in your work and it's going to save you huge swathes of...
Had a lot of fun over the years over clocking; some bonkers performance gains were to be had. But with modern setups there just doesn't seem to be the need, or the benefit from bothering. Most components now are already set to (or will scale automatically to) their limits, or close enough to...
I wouldn't write off Lenovo because of one bad laptop. Sounds like you just got a dud.
As you say it's important to check the screen specs not just the internals! Quite often to lower the price they'll be a range of screen options on the same laptop.
I know on my Gaming 3 you could get it with...
Oh man, if we're listing main rig CPU upgrades over the years I've had oh so many:
Intel DX2 50
AMD K5 PR133
AMD K6/2 300
AMD K6/2 380
AMD K6/2 500
AMD Duron 650
AMD T-Bird 1.4GHz
Intel P4 1.6A
Intel P4 2.4A
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (Palomino)
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (T-Bred B)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+...
Used to upgrade all the time just to have new toys to play with. In more recent years I've tended to upgrade more sporadically.
I'll probably pick up a 5800X (which is the max my X370 will take) when I can pick one up for cheap as it's an easy upgrade without having to rebuild the whole system.
This - have to caveat everything you say or someone will throw it back in your face that you didn't cover every minutia, even though if you did they'd be bored senseless.
I downloaded the nVida drivers. Then used this: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/gpu-601 to clear out the AMD drivers. Shut down, unplug the network cable, swap the cards over. Boot into windows, install nvidia drivers, reconnect network cable.
Build quality of the FE is superb, feels weighty and is excellently presented, cooling performance is excellent also. Can't even hear the card even when it's fully utilised.
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